For School

Book by Amalie Skram

«Mensa rotunda, svarte lille Marius og døde.» Sitatet er et av høydepunktene i historien om skolegutten som dør av for mye latin, kanskje den mest kjente av alle norske skolehistorier. Den er et oppgjør med konkurranseskolen, konfirmasjonspresset og alt som forfatteren mente undergravde selvstendigheten og den frie tanke hos de unge. Samtidig gir den en gripende skildring av en betydelig kvinne som går til grunne i småbyens trange forhold. Gift ble utgitt første gang i 1883. Drevet av medfølelse, raseri og realisme rettet Alexander L. Kielland et avslørende blikk mot autoritet og hykleri, undertrykkelse og urett. Språket i denne utgaven av Gift er varsomt modernisert, med utgangspunkt i Gyldendals utgave av Kiellands samlede verker fra 1995.

A mother and son move to a village in northern Norway, each ensconced in their own world. Their distance has fatal consequences. Love is the story of Vibeke and Jon, a mother and son who have just moved to a small place in the north of Norway. It's the day before Jon's birthday, and a travelling carnival has come to the village. Jon goes out to sell lottery tickets for his sports club, and Vibeke is going to the library. From here on we follow the two individuals on their separate journeys through a cold winter's night - while a sense of uneasiness grows. Love illustrates how language builds its own reality, and thus how mother and son can live in completely separate worlds. This distance is found not only between human beings, but also within each individual. This novel shows how such distance may have fatal consequences.

A Guardian Book of the Year and Chapters/Indigo Best Book A bestseller in Scandinavia—Doppler is the enchanting, subversive, and very unusual story about one man and his moose. This beguiling modern fable tells the story of a man who, after the death of his father, abandons his home, his family, his career, and the trappings of civilization for a makeshift tent in the woods where he adopts a moose-calf named Bongo. Or is it Bongo who adopts him? Together they devote themselves, with some surprising results, to the art of carefree living. Hilarious, touching, and poignant in equal measure—you will read it with tear-stained cheeks and sore sides—Doppler is also a deeply subversive novel and a strong criticism of modern consumer culture.